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It was a documentary investigating online bullying. Not a 'news' story of the day.
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Still...
BBC confronts Facebook troll
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#22I have the feeling that this is the ultimate 'feed the troll' reaction. Actually caring enough to track them down, talk to them and reason with them about obviously attention-seeking and ill-meant content? Why?
Well, we can't forget that even trolls have day jobs, bosses, friends, family, acquaintances. This particular troll wrote some mean, racist, inhumane comments. He wants attention, but not to his real self, which is why he posts under a fake account. So as a society, what do you do with such offenders? Freedom of speech wasn't really meant to protect garbage like that. Well, one option is you can publicly shame him, o…
So .. we form a mob and lynch them?
If I forget my 'ignore them' position for a second: Either they do violate the law or they don't. If they do, the law is responsible here, not you/we. If they don't, it's a rather weird idea to hunt them down and blackmail them to stop that behavior or you're telling the employer/his wife/his mom about those Facebook posts.
Let's focus on improvements to moderation systems and teach people around us that they shouldn't take random posts on the internet serious.
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#23Is it just me or does that BBC dude come off as pro-censorship?
Not just you. I facepalmed at "...and possibly illegal".
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#24Not being familiar with privacy laws in the UK, did he have to sign a release to have his face shown on that program? If so I fail to see how its effectively shaming someone if they willingly submit to be filmed.
There is a public interest defence...
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#26I do not agree with the statements of the troll but will defend his right to say it. The internet is making the world like a small town. Piss on people on the internet will be like pissing on people in line at Walmart. You can, but people are going to hate you, and you will never be forgiven by anyone for anything bad you do unless you hire a professional to erase your histories.
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#27"Burton looks like so many large, smoking men whom you'd see in a British pub" What a ridiculous stereotype.
Not to mention you can't smoke in pubs in Britain - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_ban_in_England
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#28Trivia:
Nimrod 7 is an asshole cyborg character from a Cyberpunk game Bloodnet (Microprose 1993).
Basically Nimrod is an excellent cyborg warrior. But if you have him on team you will face A LOT of unprovoked attacks.
http://www.sysabend.org/champions/characters/mweisler@rz.uni...
This guy seems to have his character covered pretty well.
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#29Hmm, this is actually an entertaining idea. I'd like to see a Chris Hansen style confrontation, where they track down trolls, confront them with what they've written, and then see how they justify or apologize their way out of the situation.
Saturday Night Live had a skit that was similar to this a few months back:
http://boingboing.net/2011/10/18/internet-trolls-on-snl.html
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#30Trivia: Nimrod 7 is an asshole cyborg character from a Cyberpunk game Bloodnet (Microprose 1993). Basically Nimrod is an excellent cyborg warrior. But if you have him on team you will face A LOT of unprovoked attacks. http://www.sysabend.org/champions/characters/mweisler@rz.uni... This guy seems to have his character covered pretty well.
Good find. Have to say, that's a great obscure reference.